The property is idyllic. It consists of two parcels in a cove on the St. Croix River along the Wisconsin-Minnesota border where the river widens and flattens to form Lake St. Croix.

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A Cross Plains firm is taking a technology typically used by large construction firms and making it available to property owners.

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The clock is ticking ... both for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and for when private citizens try to meet the statutory deadline for challenging changes that towns make to local highways.

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A state court of appeals has ruled that the village of Cross Plains properly compensated a man for land it took for a construction project.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court held Thursday that the state Department of Transportation has at least one way to avoid having to provide additional compensation after restricting a property owner's only means of getting to a highway: Creating an alternative access route.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide Thursday whether the state Department of Transportation must compensate a property owner for restricting access to a highway even though it created another point of access.

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Lawmakers are considering ways to make it easier for a crude oil pipelines to be built in Wisconsin.

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Mistakes on a map do not give the state free rein to take private property without compensating the owner, a state court of appeals has ruled.

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A Kenosha landowner is urging the state Supreme Court to reject the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s attempt to avoid paying damages after removing a driveway.

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The state Supreme Court will not review a lawsuit over a Brown Deer road project and land acquisition.

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